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元器件交易网讯 2月13日消息，据CNBC报道，美国著名有线电视公司康卡斯特准备以每股159美元总价高达450亿美元全额收购时代华纳有线公司，此次收购将造就一系列高昂的付费电视业务。
康卡斯特市值为1465亿美元，它是美国最大的有线电视服务供应商，在美国拥有2300万用户。时代华纳位居第二，拥有1200万用户。下一个是拥有460万用户的考克斯。
时代华纳有线电视公司已经酝酿此举好几个月，Charter公司一直试图与时代华纳有线电视公司合并。它甚至还提名原时代公司人员可为董事会成员。
但是，根据纽约时报所称Charter只以每股132.50美元收购时代华纳，时代华纳认为价格太低拒绝了Charter。现在看起来时代华纳有了一个更好的交易，不过此项交易需要处于政府监管下。（元器件交易网 白玉涛译）
以下为外文：
Comcast is set to buy Time Warner Cable in an all-stock deal that values Time Warner at $159 per share, CNBC"s David Faber reports on Twitter.
At $159, Comcast would be paying an 18% premium to today"s closing price. It would value Time Warner Cable at ~$45 billion. Comcast is valued at $146.5 billion.
This would make one gigantic cable company.
Comcast is the biggest cable provider in the US with 23 million subscribers. Time Warner is the second biggest with 12 million subscribers. The next closest is Cox with 4.6 million subs. (All numbers from Wikipedia.) Satellite company DirecTV has 20 million subscribers.
Time Warner Cable has been in play for months now. Charter has been trying to merge with Time Warner Cable. It even nominated a full slate of board members.
But Charter was only offering $132.50 per share for Time Warner, which Time Warner rejected as "grossly inadequate," according to The New York Times.
Time Warner was holding out for a better deal, and it looks like it got one.
However, this is far from a done deal. It will come under heavy government scrutiny.
This would create the biggest pay-TV business by a mile. There"s not exactly a ton of competition in the world of cable, but this would effectively make it non-existent.
